Palace Gardens in Lower Mesopotamia - 8th to 11th Centuries

Provides the first in-depth examination of palace gardens in the Abbasid caliphate's Lower Mesopotamian heartland

About the author

Wolfson College, Khalili Research Centre, Oxford Safa Mahmoudian is an art and architectural historian, who has held academic positions at the University of Oxford, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Vienna. Her doctoral thesis, completed at the University of Vienna received the Grete Mostny Dissertation Prize in 2022. Her first monograph, titled The Story of Fadan Mādī Life, Architecture and Urban Spaces along a Canal in Safavid Isfahan (in Persian, Tehran: Rawzana) explores the riverine landscape of a main water canal - Fadan Mādī - in seventeenth-century Isfahan from various angles. Her investigations demonstrated the crucial role that the water system of Isfahan played in shaping the city's morphology, architecture and daily life.

Summary

Provides the first in-depth examination of palace gardens in the Abbasid caliphate's Lower Mesopotamian heartland

Product details

• Authors: Safa Mahmoudian, Safa Mahmoudian
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2024
• EAN: 9781399524254
• ISBN: 978-1-399-52425-4
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions